. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 50 Animal Life What the Esquimaux dog (portraits of which melt-in-my-mouth expression which, whilst breed were recently given in it may be pretty and attractive to ladies, ^fette ™Dog;de Animal Life) is to the Esqui- is by no means correct. The Samoyede dog maux of Arctic America and is found of all colours, but that preferred Greenland, so is the Samoyede dog to the in this country is white. This is the dog nomadic tribes inhabiting the western portion of Siberia and north-east of Russia. These two, with the Norwegian dog,
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 50 Animal Life What the Esquimaux dog (portraits of which melt-in-my-mouth expression which, whilst breed were recently given in it may be pretty and attractive to ladies, ^fette ™Dog;de Animal Life) is to the Esqui- is by no means correct. The Samoyede dog maux of Arctic America and is found of all colours, but that preferred Greenland, so is the Samoyede dog to the in this country is white. This is the dog nomadic tribes inhabiting the western portion of Siberia and north-east of Russia. These two, with the Norwegian dog, commonly called Elkhound in this country, are the most important forms of the Arctic dog. The Samoyede is rather smaller than the Esquimaux, and more domestic-looking; in character also he is less wild than the Esqui- maux, just as the Samoyede tribes are more civilized than the Green- landers and Alaskan In- dians. This makes him more suitable as a pet than the American dog, but also, in my opinion (writes Mr. Brooke, who sends us the photograph), renders him less distinctive in appearance as a breed: for there is no dis- guising the fact that he is apt to look like a large Pome- ranian dog ; in fact, when a great German cynologist and judge was in this country last summer, at the Botanic Gardens Dog Show, he remarked that the majority of the Samoyedes exhibited would, if running about a German town, be taken for large Pome- ranians. Another point which domestication in this country is altering is the eye. All Arctic dogs have a more or less keen and wild expression, which is typical and goes far to make up the correct tout ensemble ; but many of the specimens bred' in this country have a soft, gentle, butter-won't-. I'hotograph by T. Fall. "; A pure white Samoyede. now usually made use of in Polar expeditions, partly owing to its being more tractable than the Esquimaux. It will be remembered that some years back a large number of these dogs which had been
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